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2007 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Historical Dynamic Interactions between Regulatory Policy and Pipe-end Technology Development in Japan: Case Studies of Developing Air Pollution Control Technology
Author : Yoshifumi Fujii
Published in: Development of Environmental Policy in Japan and Asian Countries
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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The report entitled Environmental Policies in Japan by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) reviewed Japanese environmental policy in the 1970s and its outcome, concluding that ‘Japan has won many pollution abatement battles, but has not yet won the war for environmental quality’ (OECD, 1977). The report characterized the policy as a non-economic or command and control one. The report also questioned how environmental improvement under the policy could be consistent with economic performance and industrial competitiveness. In fact, the Japanese economy achieved relatively good performance after succeeding in sharp reduction of the sulphur oxides (SOx) concentration and even after introducing the first emission standard for nitrogen oxides (NOx) in the world, which had the potential to cause more than a small economic impact.